perpetuate是什么意思？

perpetuate

英[pəˈpetʃueɪt] 美[pərˈpetʃueɪt]

• vt. 使永存，使不朽，使不灭，保持；
• adj. 长存的；

第三人称单数：perpetuates;

过去式：perpetuated;

过去分词：perpetuated;

现在分词：perpetuating;

名词：perpetuation;

例句

• Every moment of the fashion industry’s misery is richly deserved by the designers and magazine poltroons who perpetuate this absurd creation. 时装工业每一个痛苦的时刻都是完全应该被时装设计师们…和那些使这种荒诞创造永久化的杂志懦夫领受。
• We must not perpetuate the religious divisions of the past. 我们绝对不能让过去的宗教分裂继续下去。
• Schools tend to perpetuate the myth that boys are better at sport than girls. 学校往往会助长男孩比女孩体育强这一错误观念的延续.
• Jokes perpetuate various national stereotypes. 笑话固化了对各民族的公式化看法.
• We must not perpetuate the religious divisions of the past... 我们绝对不能让过去的宗教分裂继续下去。

英语六级真题

Regardless, all these complex measures had the same psychological purpose: to reassure people that the free fall would stop and, thereby, curb the fear that would perpetuate (使持久) a free fall.
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柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• VERB
  使（尤指不好的情况、制度、信仰等）继续，延长
  If someone or something perpetuates a situation, system, or belief, especially a bad one, they cause it to continue.
  例句
  We must not perpetuate the religious divisions of the past... 我们绝对不能让过去的宗教分裂继续下去。 This image is a myth perpetuated by the media. 这种形象是媒体宣传造成的错觉。

英汉词典释义

• vt.
  使永存;使人记住不忘;使不朽
  Schools tend to perpetuate the myth that boys are better at sport than girls. 学校往往会助长男孩比女孩体育强这一错误观念的延续。 Giving these events a lot of media coverage merely perpetuates the problem. 媒体大量地报道这些事件只会使问题持续下去。 Jokes perpetuate various national stereotypes. 笑话固化了对各民族的公式化看法。

英英词典释义

• Verb
  1. cause to continue or prevail;
  "perpetuate a myth"